Tories are heirs to Blair

From The Guardian:

The shadow chancellor, George Osborne, will say today that the Conservative party is the heir to Tony Blair's reforms of hospitals and schools, not Gordon Brown.

(A rather better monument than Tony is likely to get from his heirs, taken in a church in Milan.)

First reaction: yes, Tony's policies are not policies of the left. Second reaction: in saying that, does he imply that being Tony's heir is a good thing? I just wish I believed El Gordo agreed with this statement too...